As
a follow-up to Funke's piece, Eric Grenier has released his model for
projecting the seat counts for the upcoming federal election.

"Middle
Class" is one of those over-used phrases in politics that just drives me
crazy. The reason it bothers me so much is that the term has become so divorced
from the reality. As the article opens, 90% of Americans believe themselves to
be in the middle class. Many who believe their middle class are working class,
many in the upper class presume they are middle class. This article in
Maclean's helps define who is in the middle class.

There
are no political parties in the Northwest Territories. The Territorial
government resembles municipal politics back home in Ontario to my eye.
However, there are advocates to abandon the consensus government model and move towards a party system.

Idil
Burale writes in Spacing about the depiction of Toronto's inner suburbs. I like Burale's approach here, the inner suburbs, and suburbs in general are
facing growing challenges, but they are not uniform and should not be seen as
some alien other.

From
this Globe and Mail article I pull the following quote, " One stand-out finding from our recent
study was the growing proportions of Canadians who say that if the country were
facing “very difficult times” it would be justified for the Prime Minister to
close down parliament (23 per cent) or dissolve the Supreme Court (17 per cent)
and rule alone." Take a look.

Academics
are criticizing the government of Newfoundland and Labrador for its plan to cut the number of MLAs down to 40 from 48. This will make the Newfoundland cabinet roughly half the assembly.